Toy savings-bank



(No Model.)

H. C. HART.

TOY SAVINGS BANK.

No. 317,771. Patented May 12, 1885.

llllll N PETERS, Phoxn-mnc n n ywziwaea' UNITED STATES i PATENT OFFICE;

HENRY O. HART,OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

TOY SAVINGS-BANK.

EQPEC'IFICATION forming part OI Letters Patent NO. 317,771, dated May 12, 1885. 1 Application filed September 30, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY G. HART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, lVayne county, Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toy Savings Banks or Safes, of which the following is a specification.

. Heretofore in ordinary toy savings banks or safes it has been found easy to remove the contents without access through a regular door, either by passing a thin wire or blade through the orifice provided for theinsertion of coin, and thereby withdrawing the coin through said orifice, or by inverting the safe and shaking it, when a part of the contents will often be shaken out.

The objects of my invention are to provide novel means whereby it will be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to withdraw any portion of the contents of the bank or safe through the orifice provided for the insertion of the coin; to provide a device which will automatically close the inlet-orifice whenever the bank or safe is turned from its normal upright position or inverted, and to provide a toy safe or bank which is strong, durable,and economical in construction. These objects I accomplish in the manner and by the means hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in which-- Figure l is a perspective view of the bank or safe having a portion of the top broken away to show the device for guarding the inlet-orifice. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view through the top portion of the bank or safe; Fig. 3, a similar sectional view taken at right angles to the plane on which Fig. 2 is taken; and Fig. 4: is a plan view of a portion of the door and door-frame.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, 1' will now proceed to describe the same in detail, referring to the drawings,where the number 1 indicates the top wall of the toy bank or safe having the usual inlet orifice or aperture,2, for the insertion of the coin, and 3 indicates the guard or tumbler having end pivots or 3' ournals 4, seated in bearings or supports 5, whereby the guard or tumbler is loosely hung beneath and parallel to the'inlet-orifice. The guard or tumbler is provided with a slot or passage-way,6, coinciding with the inlet-orifice of the bank or safe when the latter is in its normal upright position, so that coin or money can be freely inserted into the bank. The guard or tumbler is preferably made with its upp er sides couvex or curved as the segment of a circle terminating in concave lower sides,6, (which are solid,) in such manner that at its inner end the inlet-orifice 2 is bounded by two comparatively sharp edges. The guard or tum bler is provided at each end with a Weight or counterbalance,7,located at about the center of the circle forming the upper side of the guard, for the purpose of throwing the greater portion of the weight below the pivots of the guard when the bank or safe is in its normal upright position. By the contrivances described, if the bank or safe be tilted or inverted, the weights will cause the guard or tumbler to turn or rock on or with its pivots and place its slot or passageway out of coincidence with the inlet-orifice 2, thus bringing one of the solid upper or convex sides across the said orifice to close and guard or shield it and preventing the insertion of any device or. instrument or the escape of any portion of the contents of the bank or safe through the inlet-orilice. The top wall of the bank or safe is provided or formed with pendent pins or lugs S, which serve as stops to limit the turning or rocking movement of the guard or tumbler, such stops being preferably arranged to act upon weights or counter-balances.

The device provides a simple, efficient,and certain guard for the inlet-orifice, and automatically operates whenever the bank or safe is tilted or invertcd.

Instead of the two weights or counter-balances shown, it is evident that the weight could be distributed through the guard itself, so as to cause that part of the latter normally below the pivots to overbalance the part above the pivots.

The side and bottom walls and the doorframe are eastjas separate pieces and are united together by rivets and lugs, and the door frame has formed on it the two bearings or cups 9 for receiving the pintles 10 and 11 of the door. These bearings or cups face each other at opposite ends of one side of the frame and are a little farther apart than the brackets on the door which carry the pintles. One of these pint1esthe upper one, 10-is somewhat longer than the other. The upper pintle, 10, being longer than the lower one and the hearings or cups farther apart than the brackets carrying the pintles, it will be obvious that the longer pintle can be inserted upward in the top bearing or cup until the lower pintle can be placed in the lower bearing or cup, after which the door will drop down in position leaving a space between the upper cup and pintle-carrying bracket,which space is fitted by bending a washer,12, around the upper pintle, preventing any liability of the door being accidentally loosened.

The door of the safe will be provided with a lock, preferably a permutation-lock,as represented; but as I do not confine myself in this invention to any particular style of look, I do not deem it essential to here describe the one represented,as it constitutes the subject matter of a separate application for Letters Patent filed of even date herewith.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a toy savings bank or safe, the combination, with the plate or side having an inlet-aperture, of a pivoted guard or tumbler wholly beneath the aperture for closing the same when the bank or safe is in an abnormal position, substantially as described.

2. In a toy savings bank or safe, the combinatiomwith the plate or side having an inlet-aperture, of the slotted and pivoted guard or tumbler beneath such aperture for closing the same, substantially as described.

3. In a toy savings bank or safe, the guard or tumbler consisting of the guard formed with a slot extending entirely through it and having counterbalance weights and pivots, substantially as described.

4- In a toy savings bank or safe, the combination of the plate or side having an inletorifice, a counter-balance, guard, or tumbler having a slot extending entirely through its center, and stops for limiting its movement, substantially as described.

5. In a toy savings bank or safe, a slotted guard or tumbler having its upper sides as segments of a circle and its lower sides concaved, substantially as described.

6. In a toy savings bank or safe, a guard or tumbler having its upper sides formed as the segments of a circle and slotted through its center,and pivots or bearings at about the center of the circle, substantially as described.

7. In a toy savings bank or safe, the combinatien of a door having pintles of unequal length and projecting therefrom inopposite directions, a door-frame having cups or bearings facing each other, and a washer around the longer pintle for retaining the door in position,substantially as described. 1

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY O. HART.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM MAY, CHAS. M. CASGRAIN. 

